On its release in 1987, Celtic Frost’s third album Into The Pandemonium achieved instant fame as a ground-breaking work of avant-garde ambition. Notoriously, Frost kicked off the album with an unexpectedly playful cover of Wall Of Voodoo’s Mexican Radio, brought in a soul singer for the should-have-been hit I Won’t Dance (The Elder’s Orient) and went all n-n-n-nineteen on the bonkers One In Their Pride. But the band also continued their established style with aplomb on formidable black thrash songs like Inner Sanctum and there were sumptuously dark, gothic tracks like Mesmerized and Sorrows Of The Moon that would influence future pioneering masterpieces like Paradise Lost’s Gothic and My Dying Bride’s Turn Loose The Swans. Overall, Into The Pandemonium has a mournful, decadent and poetic quality that I’ve loved for aeons. And, listening to it this week, it sounds as bold and adventurous as ever.